Hanleys in the Annals of Connacht

Previously we looked at the Hanley entries in the Annals of the Four Masters. Today we will look at the Hanleys, Chiefs of Cenel Dobtha, in the Annals of Connacht.

After the jump.


Annals of Connacht

1228 - Now while this assembly was in session Toirrdelbach's two sons, Maelsechlainn and Brian, gathered much cattle and folk and carried them into the waste land of Cenel Dobtha and over its moors till they came to Snam Rathine, there they crossed over into Fid Conmaicne.

1262 - But as for the Galls, Macwilliam Burke came from the west over Tóchar Móna Conneda, leading a great host, to Elphin, while from the east came the the Justiciar of Ireland and John de Verdun, who came by Athlone to Roscommon; and they sent great raiding-parties into Cenel Dobtha, plundering everything that O Conchobair had left behind in Connacht at that time. And it was on this occasion that they marked out the site of a castle at Roscommon.

1275 - Ruaidri son of Toirrdelbach O Conchobair was captured by his own brother, Tadc son of Toirrdelbach, who also plundered all [the land of] Tadc son of Cathal Mac Diarmata. Ruaidri afterwards escaped from his captivity; Conchobair O hAinlide conveyed him away, but they were pursued and Conchobair was killed then.

1286 - Domnall O hAinlige chieftain of Cenel Dobtha rested on the twenty-sixth of March.

1297 - Magnus O hAinlige, chieftain of Cenel Dobtha, was killed by his own father's brother's son and the Muinter Eolais, in treacherous wise, at Annaduff.

1311 - Jordan d'Exteter came a-riding into Moylurg and Tadc O hAinlide, chieftain of the Cenel Dobha, was killed in the pursuit of the prey.

1358 - Conchobair O hAinlige, chieftain of Cenel Dofa, died this year, after a victory over the Devil and the world.

1360 - Diarmait O hAinlige died.

1405 - Aed O hAinlide, chieftain of Cenel Dofa, rested in Christ on the seventeenth of July and was buried at Clooncorpey on the bank of the Shannon, under the protection of Berach.

1408 - Conchobair son of Imar O hAinlide was killed this year by the Corca Achlann and the Cenel Dobtha themselves, on the moor of Cluain na Caillech; and this, the 'day of the Black Borders,' was a cruel day both for Cathal Dub O Conchobair and for the children of Imar O hAinlide; and he was buried in the monastery of Roscommon. That was at the beginning of Winter.

1409 - Cathal Mac Donnchada died on the eighteenth of September, and I am not sure that this is not the year at which Conchobar son of Imar O hAinlide ought to be entered.

1413 - The sons of Domnall son of Muirchertach O Conchobair and the Clann Donnchada took a great army to the help of the descendants of Ruaidri O Conchodair to Roscommon, to victual the castle. But they were routed at Carrickadarrin by O Conchobair Ruad and the Ui Maine, with their respective Gall and Gael allies, and driven through Cluain Aithrech into Ferran na Sithe. Murchad son of Gilla na Naem O hAinlide and Fergal Brumach son of Sefraid Mag Ragnaill were killed there.

1415 - Lochlainn O hAinlige, chieftain of Cenel Dobtha, was captured by Uilliam O Cellaig at a spot appointed for their meeting by a small river (?). Two of Uilliam's men went on to the side of the river which O hAinlige was and one of them, coming up behind him, put both his hands against him and sent him into the river and the two of them leapt in after him. Ulliam's men the leapt in on top of them and O hAinlige was seized there. He was forced afterwards to ransom himself for two hundred and two score marks.

1415 - Tomaltach son of Tadc O Birn was killed in a night-attack by Fergal son of Diarmait Mag Ragnaill at Cloonshee in Baile Elli, in the house of Dondan's son. Lochlainn O hAinlige's daughter, the ward of the family, was burned there as well, and immeasurable damage was done to cattle, buildings and corn. These deeds were done on the eighth of January, on the Tuesday, moreover, after Epiphany Sunday according to the day of the week.

1419 - Lasarfina daughter of Aed O hAinlide, wife of Murchad son of Tomas O Birn, died on the third of June.

1434 - Aed Buide and Diarmait, sons of Maelsechlainn O hAinlide, were killed by the sons of Lochlainn O hAinlide and the posterity of Imar O hAinlide.

1437 - Lochlainn O hAinlige, chieftain of Cenel Dobtha, died.

1439 - Maelsechlainn O hAinlide, chieftain of the Cenel Dobtha, died.

1442 - Uaithne son of Gilla na Naem O hAinlige and Ruaidri son of Lochlainn O hAinlige fell at each others hands in one house in the residence of O Figne.

1445 - Gilla na Maen O hAilige was blinded by God.

1452 - Lochlainn Oc O hAinlige, chieftain of Cenel Dobtha, was treacherously killed in the crannog of Loch Leise by the son of Murchad son of Gilla na Naem O hAinlige and the son of Uaithne son of Gilla na Naem, having been giving up [to his slayers] by the sons of O Mailbrigte his own steward, on the Sunday night after St. Michael's day. There traitors were afterwards hanged for their offence by Ruaidri Buide O hAinlige.

1462 - Tadc O Conchobair and his kinsmen fought a battle at Corra an Gobann with the son of Brian Ballach, Mac Diarmata and the Corca Achlann, the day of the week being Sunday precisely. Mac Branain was the first to come to the place of conflict. O Conchobair and his kinsmen rose up quickly . . . to meet them, refusing to accept quarter (?) or protection from them but being pressed (?) into the deep river which lay before them. Two or three of them were drowned in this river and O Conchobair came safely over to O hAinlige. O Conchobair was then recognised again [as lord] by his own territories.

1464 - The prey of Lacan was taken by Tadc Mag Ragnaill, who was induced thereto by Diarmait son of Lochlainn Oc O hAinlige; and we have not heard that any Gall or Gael ever did this before.

1465 - Diarmait Mac Jago was treacherously killed by the sons of Gilla na Naem O hAinlige.

1465 - Diarmait and Eogan, sons of Tadc O hAinlige, were treacherously killed by the posterity of Lochlainn O hAinlige.

1468 - Conchobair son of Emann son of Maelsechlainn O hAinlige died on the Saturday before Low Sunday.

1468 - Feradach son of Lochlainn Oc O hAinlige and the son of Cormac O hAinlige's son and some of their hired troops were killed by the sons of Uaithne O hAinlige.

1469 - Aed son of Uaithne O hAinlige and Tadc son of Muirchertach son of Tomaltach O hAinlige died.

1472 - Muirchertach son of Tomaltach son of Imar O hAinlige died.

1473 - Brian son of Roiberd Mac Aedacain, law-ollav to O Conchobair Donn and O hAinlige, [died.]

1475 - Emann son of Maelsechlainn O hAinlige, a man good enough to be chieftain of the Three Tuatha, died on the fourteenth day after the feast of Michael, Thursday by the day of the week.

1476 - Derbforgaill daughter of Feidlim Finn O Conchobair, wife of O Conchobair Donn, died; and O hAinlige's daughter, wife of Toirrdelbach Caech Mac Suibne, rested.

1478 - Emann son of Lochlainn O hAinlige was killed by his own people.

1482 - Diarmait son of Lochlainn Oc O hAinle, a full worthy prospective chieftain of Cenel Dobtha, was with his brothers treacherously by the descendants of Gilla na Naem O hAinlige.

1482 - The chieftain of Cenel Dobtha, a man courageous in attack, died after living to a great age and his brother Tadc succeeded him.

1482 - Aed son of Imar son of Tomaltach was killed by his own people.

1482 - Ruaidri Mac Diarmata, king of Moylurg, and Tadg Mag Ragnaill, chieftain of Muinter Eolais, made a retaliatory expedition into Cenel Dobtha to avenge the children of Lochlainn, who had been guaranteed by both of them. They burned O hAinlige's house and killed Donnchadd son of Siacus Carrach and the son of Conchobair son of Cormac, but the inhabitants defeated them and drove them in flight as far as Ballinafad. Feidlim Finn came against the rout and checked it.

1527 - Mor daughter of Maelsechlainn Mac Caba, wife of O hAinlige, the best woman who ever lived in Cenel Dobtha, foster-mother to the poets and exiles of Ireland, a re-incarnation of Mor Muman for good repute and piety and virtue, the greatest bestower of alms and charitable gifts of food and clothing to God's poor and needy and to all who stood in need thereof, died in her own residence at Port Locha Leise and was buried in the monastery of Elphin under the protection of God and St. Francis.

1536 - An expedition was made by O Conchobair of Sligo, O Ruairc, and the son of Cathal O Conchobair, at the request of Mac Diarmata and the sons of Tadc Mac Diarmata, against Toirrdelbach Ruad son of Tadc Buide. They devastated the church and lay properties of the Cloonties and thence proceeded into the Tuatha, where the Muinter Ainlidhe gave them hostages and [so] were not destroyed by them. After this they went among the Ui Maine and destroyed all who were the friends of O Conchobair, except such as O Ruairc protected (for O Ruairc had not gone on that expedition to commit devastation, but to see if he could make peace between Mac Diarmata and his kinsmen and O Conchobair Ruad). The army took Turrock Castle and demolished it; and Donnchad son of Emann O Cellaig came to them as a hostage, for fear of his own territory being devastated. The army turned back, having accomplished the purpose of their expedition just as they wished, and those hostages were taken to Sligo, to wit the son of O hAinlidhe and the son of O Cellaig, and they carried with them the ornamented door of Turrock [castle] to Sligo.

Eagans in the Annals of Connacht

Today's post is the entries for the Eagans found in the Annals of Connacht. The entire annals can be found at CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork. John O'Hart in his Irish Pedigrees describes the Annals of Connacht thus:

The Annals of Connaught, another ancient manuscript, often quoted, was in the possession of Dr. Charles O'Conor. A copy is in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. It contains chiefly the history of Connaught, from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century; and is considered to have been compiled chiefly by the O'Maolconrys as Historiagraphers of Connaught. A beautiful manuscript on vellum, folio size, now deposited in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and containing partly in poetry, and partly in prose, the history of Fionn MacCumhail [Finn MacCoole] and the celebrated Fenian heroes of Ireland in the third century, and some of the poems ascribed to Oisin, was composed by one of the O'Maolconrys, about the fourteenth century. Dr. Drummond in his Prize Essay on the poems of Oision, states that MacPherson, the celebrated author of "Ossian's Poems," on visiting Oxford, was shown the above memtioned Irish manuscript, as containing the Poems of Oisin, a single word of which he was unable to read.

You will notice in the Annals of Connacht the Eagan/Egan/MacEgan is written as 'Mac Aedacain.'

The entries after the jump.


1225 - Tadc O Finnachta, an officer of Aed son of Ruaidri [O Conchobair] was killed by Mac Aedacan's men on a plundering raid in this same year.

1235 - An Gilla Suasanach (the Mop-haired Lad) Mac Aedacain died this year.

1249 - When Jordan [D'Exeter] and the Galls saw this they issued from the town against the princes. Mary wrought a miracle then; for when the princes and their followers saw the horsemen in arms and armour making towards them, horror and dread seized them and they were put to flight. Aed son of Aed O Conchobair was kilked there, and Diarmait Ruad son of Cormac O Mailsechlainn, O Cellaig's two sons, Brian of the Wood son of Magnus, Carrach Insiubail son of Niall O Conchobair, Baethgalach Mac Aedacain, Mathgamain son of Tadc son of Diarmait Bachlach O Conchobair, Lochlainn O Conchobair's two sons, Domnall son of Cormac Mac Diarmata, Finadanach Mac Branain, Cu Muman Mac Casurlaig, and many others.

1273 - Jordan D'Exeter raided the Corann, and a few of the Connacht princes came up with his party; but they were incited to an unwise move by an evil (?) man, so that Domnall son of of Donnchad son of Magnus [O Conchobair] and Magnus son of Art and Oirechtach Mac Aedacain and Aed O Birn and many others were killed.

1309 - Aed son of Eogan son of Ruaidri son of Aed son of Cathal Croberg, king of Connacht and eligible for his nobility, valour, generosity, form and feature for the kingship of Ireland, was killed by Aed Brefnech son of Cathal Ruad O Conchobair at Coill in Chlachain in the territory of Brefne. Many of the great men of Connacht were killed with him, such as Conchobair Mac Diarmata, Diarmait Ruad son of Tadc son of Andrias O Conchobair, Diarmait son of Cathal Carrach Mac Diarmata and Aed son of Muirchertach son of Tadc son of Maelruanaid [Mac Diarmata]. And of the Eastern party there fell on that same day Diarmait Oc O hElide, a noble loyal princely yeoman, Maeldomnaig the Gallowglass, Gilla na Naem Mac Aedacain, ollav of Connacht in Law and a universal master equally skilled in all arts, Fagurtach O Dobailein of the household of Mac Donnchada and many others besides these. The losses on both sides were not less than a hundred. Aed Brefnech came into the country afterwards and the Three Tuatha submitted to him.

1316 - But on hearing that William Burke had come into Connacht from Scotland, Feidlim called upon his subjects to assemble an army to expel him; and the army was assembled from all the region between Assaroe and Aughty. Moreover Donnchad O Briain, king of Thomond, came with his assembled host, and O Maelsechlainn, king of Meath, O Ruairc, king of Brefne, O Fergail, king of Conmaicne, Tadc O Cellaig, king of Ui Maine, and many more of the kings' and chieftains' sons of Ireland assembled to him. And they all marched to Athenry to oppose William Burke, Mac Feorais, and the other Connacht Galls, and joined battle with them in fron of the town. The Gaels were defeated and Feidlim O Conchobair, who was king of Connacht and entitled to become King of Ireland without opposition, was killed there and Tadc O Cellaig, king of Ui Maine fell with him, together with twenty-eight men who were entitled to succeed to the kingship of Ui Maine. Magnus son of Domnall O Conchobair, tanist of Connacht, was killed, as were Art O hEgra, king of Leyney, Maelschlainn Carrach O Dubda, Muirchertach son of Conchobair O Dubda, Conchobair Oc O Dubda, Diarmait Mac Diarmata, an eligible prince of Moylurg, Muirchertach son of Taichlech Mac Diarmata, Muirchertach son of Diarmait son of Fergal [Mac Diarmaita], Maelsechlainn Oc Mac Magnusa, Sean son of Murchad O Matadain, Domnall son of Aed O Con Chenainn, king of the Ui Diarmata, and Muirchertach his brother, Murchad O Matadain, Domnall O Baigill, Donnchad O Mailmuaid and his followers, the son of Murchad Mag Mathgamma and a hundred of his men, Niall Sinnach, king of Tethba, and his followers, Fergal son of Seoan Gallda O Fergail, Uillial son of Aed Oc O Fergail, Tomas son of Amlaib O Fergail. Five of the Clann Donnchaid fell there, viz. Tomaltach son of Gilla Crist Mac Donnchaid, Murchad, Mac Donnchaid, Conchobair son of Tadc, Muirchertach and Maelsechlainn Mac Donnchaid. Eoin Mac Aedacain, brehon to O Conchobair, Gilla na Naem son of Dail re Docair O Dobailein, the standard-bearer, and Tomas O Conallain fell around their lord. Moreover it is hard to say how many of the men of Munster and Meath and of Ireland generally were killed there; in the words of the poet: 'Many of the men of all Ireland [lay dead] about that great field; many a king's son, whom I name not, of the Meath and Munster hosts was killed in that great rout; my heart rues the fight.' These deeds were done on the day of St. Lawrence Martyr. Fedlimid was a man of twenty-three when he was killed, and he reigned for five years till Ruairdi son of Cathal usurped the kingship from him for half a year, and he reigned again for half a year after Ruaidri's death till he was slain in this battle of Athenry.

1317 - Mael Isa Ruad Mac Aedacain, a master Brehon in the ancient law, died.

1320 - An important meeting between Cathal O Conchobair and Maelruanaid Mac Diarmata, where they mad a wise and friendly peace. Afterwards Mac Diarmata came [back] into the country and this Cathal acted treacherously towards him and he was captured at Mullach Doramnach and his wife, Graine daughter of Mac Magnusa, at Rockingham. The countryside was then ravaged and Mael Isa Donn Mac Aedacain and his son and Tomaltech Mac Donnchada, lord of Tirerril, were also captured.

1327 - Sadb daughter of Mac Aedacain died.

1355 - Tadc Mac Aedacain died.

1359 - Aed son of Conchobar Mac Aedacain died this year.

1390 - Brian Mac Aedacain, ollav-brehon of Brefne, died.

1390 - Sean Mac Aedacain the Official, the best man in his post in his time, was killed four nights before Christmas and I do not know who killed him.

1399 - Gilla na Naem Mac Aedacain, ollav of Eastern Munster in Law, and Baethgalach Mac Aedacain, ollav in Law of the Ui Fiachrach and the Ui Amalgaid, died.

1401 - Gilla na Naem Mac Aedacain, judge-ollav of the Ui Failgi and the Cenel Fiachnach, rested.

1409 - Muirchertach Mac Aedacain, law-ollave of Teffia, died.

1411 - Magnus son of Baethgalach Mac Aedacain, prior of Sligo, died.

1422 - The sons of O Mailsechlainn made an attack on Ardnurcher. Mag Eochacan was in the castle with a few men at that time, having with him also Cosnamach Oc Mac Aedacain, law-ollav of the Cenel Fiachach and the Ui Failgi. The brehon mounted his horse and rode after them, thinking them to be the sons of Muirchertach Oc Mac Eochacain, who were in rebellion against Mac Eochacain at that time, he himself having [come to the castle] to make settlement between the parties.
He followed the band westwards out of the town to Topar Brigte. Here the sons of O Mailsechlainn were waiting (?) and at the noise (?) of the rider they discharged the arrows which were ready in their bows and Cosnamach Oc was killed without delay by an arrow shot.

1437 - Gormlaith daughter of Dauid O Duibgennain, wife of Brian Mac Aedacain, and ultimately an anchorite, entered into rest in the monastery of the Trinity on Loch Key.

1438 - Conchobair Mac Aedacain, ollav of Macwilliam of Clanrickard, died.

1443 - Gilla na Naem Mac Aedacain, the teacher of Ireland in his own art, ollav of Ormond, died.

1473 - Mac Aedacain of Ormond, that is Gilla na Naem, died the year after.

1473 - Brian son of Roiberd Mac Aedacain, law-ollav to O Conchobair Don and O hAinlige, [died.]

1473 - Gilla na Naem son of Donnchad Mac Aedacain died.

1474 - Gilla Find Mac Aedacain, ollav to O Conchobair Failgi, died.

1487 - Sean son of Conchobair Mac Aedacain died.

1528 - Magnus son of Domnall Mac Aedacain died.

1529 - Cosnamaid son of Fergal son of Dub Mac Aedacain, a man preminent in Brehon Law and in Poetry, died as was buried at Elpin.

1529 - Mac Aedacain of Ormond, Domnall son of Aed son of Domnall, head of the learning and wisdom of Leth Moght, died.